Establishing a Plan to Achieve Energy Code Compliance in Cities, a new resource developed by the City Energy Project, helps guide U.S. city leadership and their building department leadership in working together to implement an effective strategy to achieve high levels of energy code compliance for new and renovated buildings. The document introduces factors responsible … Continued
IMT to study Ala.'s new residential construction, offer codes training.
Ryan Meres digs into changes to the IECC that will affect home builders.
HUD sees whole-building data access as crucial for better efficiency in multifamily buildings.
Examining the financial value of energy-efficient buildings.
ENERGY STAR for multifamily buildings is here.
As the U.S. housing stock ages and energy prices climb, more robust strategies and financing mechanisms are needed to drive energy efficiency renovations in existing homes, particularly among low- and middle-income households. To date, residential retrofit strategies have broadly targeted homeowners, with less emphasis placed on leveraging the home purchase process to trigger renovations early … Continued
Jamestown, L.P. is one of 14 companies to earn the inaugural Green Lease Leaders designation, created by IMT and the U.S.Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Alliance. A national, vertically-integrated real estate management company, Jamestown owns over $7 billion in assets. So when it decided to develop a green leasing program to achieve its sustainability goals, the Atlanta-based firm … Continued
Addressing the key players who can make high-performance buildings the norm.
A new online tool democratizes building code development.